Justin Sheehy is the CTO of Basho Technologies, the company behind the creation of Webmachine and Riak. Most recently before Basho, he was a principal scientist at the MITRE Corporation and a senior architect for systems infrastructure at Akamai. At both of those companies he focused on multiple aspects of robust distributed systems, including scheduling algorithms, language-based formal models, and resilience.

Riak is a fault-tolerant distributed database that is designed to be very friendly to both developers and operations. Justin will provide a survey of Riak's internals, showing the audience a number of the tools and techniques that helped to make it so robust, scalable, and extensible.